Razor-strop



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JOSEPH B. TORREY, OF VOROESTEB, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,380, dated November 13,'1883,

Application lea september 4,1m. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn B. TORREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at I/Vorcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements,inRazor-Strops, of which the following is a specification, reference being had thereinto the accompanying drawings. y

`My invention relates more particularly to that class of razor-strops intended for the use of travelers, the object of my invention being the production of alight and compact strop having a variety of stropping-surfaces, this object being accomplished by constructing the strop so that one portion thereof may fold within the other. y

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in the several figures, Figurelisaperspective view ofmy folding strop partly open. Fig.r2 is a central longitudinal section of the same f folded, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section.

A indicates a case` which constitutes the outer or main portion of thestrop, said case preferably consisting of thestrips or bodies c and c',` of wood, united at one end by the block a2, to which the `strips c c are secured by tacks, glue, or other suitable means. A stropping-belt, which may be formed in two parts united together, as shown, or in one piece only, is secured on the outer` sideof the case A, thus affordingtwo strapping-surfaces, ci ci, which will `preferably be of different grades or different degrees of flneness. Thesestropping-surfaces may be cushioned, as shown, or may be hard or uncushioned.

B indicates the inner or folding strop, pivoted or jointed to the portion A by a pin or rivet, C. `The strop B consists of a strip or body, b, preferably of wood, provided with stropping-surfaces `b b2, said surfaces being preferably of different grades from each other and from the surfaces a3 ce* on the case4 in portion A. The stropping-surfaces of the inner strop, B, may be hard, as shown, or they maybe cushioned, as maybe deemed most desirable. i y

From the foregoing it will be apparent that my improved strop, while very compact and light, is furnished with four stropping-su rfaces, all of which are conveniently accessible, and, being all secured together, one portion of the strop cannot become separated from the other. When the strop is to be used, the part B willbe opened or unfolded from the part A in the same manner that the blade of a knife or razor is opened from the handle, and when thus opened one portion of the strop will serve as a handle for the other portion.

Vhile I have shown the outer strop as having cushioned stropping-surfaces and the inner strop as having hard surfaces, which arrangement of stropping-surfaces I consider preferable, it will be understood that thisarl rangement may be reversed, thus having the cushioned surfaces on the inner strop and the hard surfaces on the outer one, or all of the surfaces may be cushioned, or all of them uncushioned, if desired; also, the inner folding strop, instead/'of `being as long as the case or outer strop will admit, as shown, might be made short and be used mainly for a handle.

`I do not claim in this application a razorstrop `consisting of 4a plurality of folding bodies, each of which has a plurality of stroppingsurfaces, all of which surfaces may be rendered accessible for use by changing the relative positions of said folding bodies, as I reserve such a claim for another application which is filed simultaneously with this.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and of my own invention" 1; A razor-strop `consisting of two jointed portions, both of which are provided with suitable stropping-surfaces, one of said portions being adapted to Ifold withinA the other, substantially as described.'

2. A razor-strop consisting of two jointed portions, one of whichvis adapted to fold within the other, the outer portion or case having cushioned stropping-surfaces, and the inner portion having uncushioned stropping-surfaces, substantially as described.

' 3. The combination, in a razor-strop, of the parts A and B and pin C, the part B bein adapted to fold within the part A, the said part A consisting of the strips c and a and block ai, suitably secured together, and the stropping-surfaces a3 and ai, and the part B, consisting of the strip or body b, having stropping-surfaces b b2, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH R. TORREY.

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